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Do you even want to know how many syrian civilians Assad kills each day?
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/baschar-al-assads-folterregime-die-verschwundenen-von-syrien-a-1067655.html(article in german)
https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/syria
http://sn4hr.org/blog/2015/08/30/11397/
Human Rights Watch took a look at 8 cases of people who got disappeared and revealed their fates, aided by interviews with friends and relatives and former syrian soldiers.
Short version: If you are from an area where rebels come from, the Assad-regime will kidnap you, torture you until you confess and then torture you a little bit more until you are dead. And then they will dump you in a mass-grave.
There is no arrest, no paper-trail, no judicial trial, no official proof that you were even taken in by government-agents.
A former syrian military-photographer, who goes by the pseudonym "Caesar", smuggled photos out of Syria in August 2013.
At least 6786 people died in the torture-dungeons of the Assad-regime between May 2011 and August 2013.
And the numbering of the corpses leads to the estimate that at least 11,000 corpses passed through those two morgues alone during that time.
According to syrian human rights activists, approximately 65,000 people have been "disappeared" by the Assad-Regime since March 2011.
The syrian government outright denies any evidence of this as fabrication, but at the same time refuses entry to its dungeons to UN-monitors.
For comparison, during the same time, ISIS, Al-Nusra and all the other rebel-groups combined are responsible for 2200 kidnappings.
So, if a friend or relative of yours simply disappears in Syria, there's a 97%-chance the Assad-regime did it.
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Why, oh why, can't those syrian rebels take one for the team and accept that Assad stays in power so the international community can defeat ISIS?
Why do they have to be so selfish?
And the international community certainly has no business deposing Assad. The guy with the torture-dungeons was legally elected president of Syria and we have to respect that!
